[syslog-ng] Broadcast message on syslog-ng HUP

[Balazs Scheidler]

> I've got syslog-ng 1.4.3 running on a Solaris 2.6 host.  When I modify the
> syslog-ng.conf file and HUP the server, I get an (apparent) empty wall from
> root:
> 
> Broadcast message from root (???) on syslog Tue Jun 13 17:00:16...
> 
> Is this a feature or a bug?  Is there any way to mask it?  I've tried
> disabling all lines in the syslog-ng.conf file which output to users or ttys
> to no avail.

Syslog-ng can't broadcast messages to users, at least it doesn't format the
message like above. If '*' is used as username, a logline is sent to each
logged in user, but no header is printed.

One possible reason might be that some program lost the connection to
syslog-ng, and the syslog function in your libc tries to broadcast the
message to all your terminals in this case.

Try to truss syslog-ng to check if it produces this message, or something
else.

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Bazsi